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“Please! Please! Please! Play Espresso!” Read a sign in the crowd at Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella set earlier this year. The singer had just released the now inescapable hit the night prior. Little did we know, the sign was a sneaky little Easter egg for “Please, please, please,” the lead single for Carpenter’s recently announced album Short n’ Sweet, out August 23. Carpenter’s new era is kicking off with a music video co-starring none other than her biggest hype man, the Academy Award nominated actor Barry Keoghan.
“I’m feeling like I will never pay for another coffee again, and I’m so grateful and excited for people to hear the whole record. It’s so close to me!” wrote Carpenter over email about entering her new era post the success of “Espresso.” In the video, Carpenter wears everything from Alaïa and Dilara Findikoglu to Alexandre Vauthier couture and custom Coach (“I always like to heighten fashion and storyline in my videos, it’s playtime for me”) while fabulously and—quite seductively—pleading to her mischievous lover to not embarrass her any longer. “Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another/I beg you don’t embarrass me, motherfucker,” she sings. One has to wonder, who could this song be about?
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For those well-versed in the Sabrina Carpenter universe, the singer gets arrested at the end of her “Espresso” music video. “I ended the last video getting arrested, so naturally I thought it would be satisfying to start the ‘Please, please, please’ video in jail,” she wrote. “I liked the idea of falling in love with a convict and being shocked and embarrassed every time he commits crimes. I was sooo lucky to get Barry Keoghan in the video cause he is just magic on screen.” There’s no arguing with that.
To celebrate Carpenter’s new single and the announcement of her sixth album (you read that right, this didn’t happen overnight!), the video’s director and Vogue contributor, Bardia Zeinali, and Carpenter’s stylist, Ron Hartleben, joined Vogue for a short and sweet (sorry, I had to) chat about the making of “Please, please, please.”